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Boy’s eyes ‘removed with spoon’

Paying homage to Virgin del Rocio

Blogs

When militants become poets

The book Poetry of the Taliban makes it clear that the time to quit Afghanistan is now, as there can be no clean end to the war.

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Features

CIA remembers those lost in covert operations

A new star was added to the intelligence agency’s memorial wall and more than a dozen names to its Book of Honor.

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Highlights

Hundreds march in Hong Kong to remember Tiananmen

Activists marched to the government headquarters in the first of a series of planned events marking the anniversary.

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